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- EU files new charges against Intel
- European Union antitrust regulators say Intel paid retailers to not sell PCs using chips made by rival Advanced Micro Devices. BRUSSELS--European Union antitrust regulators made new accusations against chipmaker Intel on Thursday, saying it paid retailers to not sell PCs using chips made by rival Advanced Micro Devices. ...
- Tags: Commission, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., European Union, Sales Force Management, Semiconductors, Sales, Hardware, Components, Reuters, Intel, antitrust, European Commission, AMD, processors
- News items 2008-07-17
- EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gap
- The European Union will investigate Microsoft's support for the Open Document Format ODF in Office. It wonders whether the move increases competition. (Picture from BoycottNovell.) This comes just a day after Microsoft, with great fanfare, said it would add support for ODF, Adobe PDF and...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, European Union, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- EU has privacy concerns over Street View
- The EU is not too happy with the upcoming launch of Google Maps' Street View in Europe. The problem: privacy. The AP quotes the EU's top data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx: "I would encourage Google to think about how to do this," Hustinx told...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Protection, Privacy, European Union, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech company
- Thermal testing. Courtesy Industrial Nanotech. Energy costs are now serious business for industries, office managers, and home owners across the world. Buildings account for over half of the energy use in the U.S. and a fair portion of that is for heating and...
- Tags: Insulation, Clean Technology, European Union, Nansulate, Energy Cost, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your business
- Of course our government cannot really tell us the truth about things like "weapons of mass destruction," or the true costs of various wars and occupations, or the size of the CIA's budget, because we're so silly and can't be trusted to understand. Turns out, we can't be told...
- Tags: Chemicals, Health Care, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, European Union, Government Accounting Office, Naphthalene, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Hey, Toto, maybe we should be in Kansas? In Maryland wind turbines get banned!
- Energy companies and entire countries seem to blow hot and cold on wind energy. Three years ago the German government's energy ministry said wind was too expensive. Better to simply conserve energy. Yet figures show Germany continues to expand its use of wind for generating electricity. ...
- Tags: Maryland, Turbine, European Union, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- EU investigating OOXML vote
- The EU is investigating Microsoft's handling of the OOXML vote, in which Microsoft's problem-ridden format was approved by the ISO, CNET reports. In an ongoing investigation, the EU checked in with several European countries where there were allegations of irregularities. In...
- Tags: Standards Body, Microsoft Corp., European Union, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- 19 mln new broadband lines in EU in 2007
- European Union added 19 mln broadband lines in 2007, the equivalent of more than 50,000 households a day. Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg and France all now have higher broadband penetration than the US. European telecommunications market is now worth 300 bln euros, or $474...
- Tags: Broadband, European Union, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, AM
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- EU to probe US prosecution of gaming firms
- The EU says it's taking a look at US prosecution of European online gaming outfits to see if the Bush Administration is especially targeting non-American firms, Reuters reports. "The U.S. has the right to address legitimate public policy concerns relating to Internet gambling, but discrimination against EU...
- Tags: U.S., European Union, Games, Internet, Free Trade, Personal Technology, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Will the EU fine change Microsoft?
- The impact of the European Union's $1.3 billion anti-trust fine against Microsoft is still reverberating. There's a new sheriff in town, the fine says. Her name is Kroes, Neelie Kroes. She's Dutch, and sits on the board of among others McDonald's Dutch affiliate. That...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., European Union, Linux, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Regulations, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- The EU: Too much control over the tech sector (and Microsoft) ?
- You can't understand the technology deals without being fluent in EU regulator-speak. And you also can't grasp Microsoft's next move without pondering what the European Union will do. Luckily, the Wall Street Journal shed a little light on the EU's antitrust chief Neelie Kroes. Kroes is the one...
- Tags: Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., European Union, Kroes, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Which way is the wind blowin' ?
- The folks at Emerging Energy are looking at the year past and the year to come. Here's their optimistic take on what's up with carbon dioxide emissions and carbon footprint reduction: "Recently, the EU acted to commit to 20% CO2 reductions by 2020. Europe is...
- Tags: China, Carbon Dioxide, European Union, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- EU: User privacy rights trump intellectual property
- Good and bad news for European net users. The European Union's high court said that under EU law ISPs don't have to provider user data to record labels and movie studios looking to track down illegal downloaders, the AP reports. It seems that privacy rights in the...
- Tags: Privacy, Intellectual Property Right, European Union, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- DataPortability.org Workgroup is still born
- As I write this, the interwebs are kicking off with the news that Plaxo, Facebook, Google and Robert Scoble have joined the DataPortability.org Workgroup. I can hear the cries already. First up Mike Butcher at TechCrunch who in Twitter said this is MASSIVE NEWS and reported that: As TechCrunch...
- Tags: Purpose, Law, European Union, Social Networking, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Opera files complaint against Microsoft in the EU over IE, Windows bundle; CTO makes Web standards case
- Updated with Opera CTO, Microsoft comments: Opera Software said Thursday it is filing a complaint against Microsoft in the European Union alleging the software giant is abusing its power and tying Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system. Opera also has a beef about Microsoft's support for Web standards. ...
- Tags: Web, Opera Software, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Standards, European Union, Web Standards Project, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Quality, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Business Operations, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- News to know: Supercomputer programming; Oracle Fusion; Patch day; Inbox 2.0
- Notable headlines: Ed Burnette: SC07 Day 3: Programming bits and atoms. SiCortex wins Dev Connection "Sexiest in show" award. Emerging hardware to force drastic changes in programming. George Ou: IBM's liquid cooled System p 575 Power6 supercomputer. Gallery right. Dan...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Oracle Corp., Network, Supercomputer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Programming, European Union, DNS-changing Trojan, Development Tools, Desktops, Networking, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- EU regulator wants U.S. to liberalize online gaming prohibitions: what do you think?
- Over on this other blog I do, I wrote that EU European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is in Washington D.C. trying to talk influential U.S. Congresspeople to overturn a U.S. ban on Internet gambling. It would appear that Mandelson's concerns are being...
- Tags: U.S., Regulator, Online Game, Prohibition, European Union, Jerk, Internet, Games, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Microsoft needs to pay up to the European Commission
- The Luxembourg-based Court of First Instance orders Microsoft to share protocols with its competitors and to pay a $613 million fine the European Commission had required.
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft, eu, ec, european union, european commission, fines, competition, software
- Videos 2007-09-18
- Podcast: News to know midday: EU hits Microsoft; SCO kaput; Daylight Savings Time
- On today's podcast: The EU hits Microsoft; Who's next? SCO goes kaput; files for bankruptcy. Daylight Savings Time looms for Microsoft again. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Podcast, SCO Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., European Union, Daylight Saving Time, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Google proposes international privacy standards
- Google called Friday for new international privacy standards. The company's global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, said in a U.N. speech that international privacy laws have become too fragmented and that an international body should create a standard that countries could adopt and customize, The Washington Post reports. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, Standards, European Union, Privacy Standard, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
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